Quotes About Wisdom

Middle age is when a narrow waist and a broad mind begin to change places.

Any man who knows all the answers most likely misunderstood the questions

Reality is only seen when the mirror is clean

The sum of intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.

Intelligence is the only unlimited natural resource

The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is a substitute for intelligence

Socrates learned to dance when he was seventy because he felt that an essential part of himself had been neglected.

Many people use their youth to make their old age miserable

The follies of youth become the vices of manhood and the disgrace of old age

Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.

Experience is largely non-transferable.

You cannot inherit experience

Experiences are mortgages on life

A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.

A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

A wise man learns from his mistakes, but a wiser man learns from someone else's.

Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand.

After years of marriage, I have learned one thing: Trust a woman's intuition before a man's undeniable logic.

Do not regret growing older. It's a privilege denied to many.

Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.

Follow the habit of asking, 'How do you know' Never accept opinions as facts. Avoid following free advice. Don't trust information given in a discourteous or slanderous spirit. In asking for information, do not disclose what you wish the information to be.

Fools copy proverbs

Fools rush in where fools have been before.